(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 10 - The head of the infectious diseases
department of the local ASL health authority of north-western
Tuscany said on Tuesday it was unlikely that a man from Lucca
who recently returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo with
symptoms similar to those of a mystery disease in the southwest
of the African country had contracted the illness that has
killed over 30 people.
"It is highly unlikely that it is a first case of the new
disease that is related to the one we presume to be in Congo,
also because the person stayed in areas that are very far from
the location where outbreaks occurred", said Spartaco Sani, head
of the department of infectious diseases of ASL Tuscany
North-West. (ANSA).